Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Cooperative prototyping: users and designers in mutual activity
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies - Computer-supported cooperative work and groupware. part 2
Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin?
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
Community networks: building a new participatory medium
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
Information ecologies: using technology with heart
The intellectual foundation of information organization
The intellectual foundation of information organization
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Ethnomethodologically informed ethnography and information system design
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Automatic Ontology-Based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Part I: Information seeking research
Fluid ontologies for digital museums
International Journal on Digital Libraries - Special section on Digital Museum
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Usage patterns of collaborative tagging systems
Journal of Information Science
Knowledge map creation and maintenance for virtual communities of practice
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Automatic thesaurus development: Term extraction from title metadata
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Research Articles
The South Asian web: an emerging community information system in the South Asian diaspora
Proceedings of the ninth conference on Participatory design: Expanding boundaries in design - Volume 1
Ethnomethodological architectures: Information systems driven by cultural and community visions
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Diasporic information environments: Reframing immigrant-focused information research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Domain-independent automatic keyphrase indexing with small training sets
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge
The Information Society
Ontologies on the Semantic Web
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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This article presents and validates a clustering-based method for creating cultural ontologies for community-oriented information systems. The introduced semiautomated approach merges distributed annotation techniques, or subjective assessments of similarities between cultural categories, with established clustering methods to produce “cognate” ontologies. This approach is validated against a locally authentic ethnographic method, involving direct work with communities for the design of “fluid” ontologies. The evaluation is conducted with of a set of Native American communities located in San Diego County (CA, US). The principal aim of this research is to discover whether distributing the annotation process among isolated respondents would enable ontology hierarchies to be created that are similar to those that are crafted according to collaborative ethnographic processes, found to be effective in generating continuous usage across several studies. Our findings suggest that the proposed semiautomated solution best optimizes among issues of interoperability and scalability, deemphasized in the fluid ontology approach, and sustainable usage. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.